Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24197, John Fifield, Continental (Mass)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
Fifield, John Phebe
W 24197
CONTENTS
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see letter to Sec. of War, August 26. 1828. Petition has applied for the benefits of the act of May 15. 1828. Dec d . copied for N. T. May 15. 1828 Sept. 15. 1828 Col to Gen. C. Paton June 17. 1811
[Handwritten signature/initials]
6725
District of Maine
John Joseph Fifeield
of Fryeburg, Oxford in the state of D. Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Artillery line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of D. Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of Feb y 1819 and sent to Judge Dana Fryeburg, Oxford Co Maine
  Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818. Amos 22 / 30  37. 86    Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 March 1819.  48  
$ 85.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Reported
1114 Massachusetts Phebe Hifield widow of John Hifield who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Spri of Artilly.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of August 1848 and sent to G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 48 Vol. 2

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex County } 55
On this twenty fourth day of July 1844, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex personally appeared Mrs. Phoebe Fifield, who, on her oath, declares that she is the widow of John Fifield dec d , who was formerly a Private of Artillery in the Army of the Revolution; that she has recently been pensioned under the law of 3 d of March 1843, as the widow of said John Fifield dec d ; that her name was placed on the pension-roll of the State of Maine, (at one hundred dollars per annum) from whence she has lately removed; that she now resides in Cambridge in the County of Middlesex & State of Massachusetts where she intends to remain, and wishes her pension under the law of 17 th June 1844, to be made payable at the Boston Agency in future. =
Phoebe Fifield
Sworn and subscribed to before me, the day and year aforesaid.
J. G. Ladd
J. Pease

I George W. Rifeild of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age on oath testify and say, that I am the son of Phebe Rifeild who has signed and sworn to the within affidavit. I know that she was the wife and is now the widow of John Rifeild dec d . and that the facts within stated are true. At the time of my Father's death she was a resident of Maine but is now living in my family and further say not. George W. Rifeild
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss. July 24 th 1844. - Then Middlesex County came Geo. W. Rifeild and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true - and I further certify that said Rifeild has been personally known to me many years and is a credible witness and entitled to belief Attest - Isaac Briggs, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston July 25 th 1844
I hereby Certify , That at the date of the annexed attestation Isaac Dike was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Declaration of John Sifield Private Cranes Mass t Reg of Feby 1781 War
Apr. 13. 1888
Proof of service Captured
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Oxford's - April On this thirteenth day of July A D 1818 - before me the Subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in said County - and first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in sd Commonwealth - personally appeared.
John Fifield aged fifty six years Resident of Fryeburg in said County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval ser- vice of the United States in the revolutionary war; That he the said John Fifield, served in the revolutionary war, as a Private Soldier on the continental es- tablishment against the common enemy about two years and nine months, that he enlisted in Massa- chusetts, in February A D 1781 into the Artillery Company com- manded by Capt John Silley in Col John Crane's Regiment of Artillery in Massachusetts Line for three years , afterwards by the consent of the commanding officer, he exchanged ser- vice with John Robertson, who had enlisted during the war - and was treated as such - that he served in said comp- till the close of the war - when on the tenth day of June A D 1783 he received a furlow and conditional discharge at West Point Brook State - which discharge was not to

take effect till the treaty of Peace should arrive - and that same discharge is long since lost - and that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support -
Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid
JUDAH DANA Judge
I Judah Dana Judge as aforesaid do certify, that from the foregoing declaration and from the testimony of two other credible Witnesses, it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Griffield did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment - and that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and declared before me to the secretary of the war department pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress - In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Fryeburg this thirteenth day of July A D 1818
JUDAH DANA Judge

County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said County. Do at Fryeburg in said County on Monday, the thirteenth day of April A.D. 1818. certify and make known that the Hon. Judah Dana who signed the forgoing certificate is Judge of said Court of Probate & first associate justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the First Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth. And that said instrument is under the seal of said Probate Court.
Attest Simon Goodrich Reg r of Probate

Sent 10 8/48
Mr Washington
April 19. 1844
Mr Brewster
Rejected
H. W. Parmach HR
John F. Miller Declaration

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss.
On the nineteenth day of March A.D. 1844, personally appeared before the Hon. Saml P. Fay Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid Phebe Fifeild a President of Cambridge in said County of Middlesex aforesaid & formerly a resident, of Fryeburgh in the State of Maine, aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled 'An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows,' & also an act of Congress passed March 3 d 1843. That she is the widow of John Fifeild late of said Fryeburgh, now deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution; He enlisted as she always understood & truly believes on or about the first of May in the year 1781, for the term of three years, at said Fryeburgh, into a Company of Artillery, & as she thinks commanded by Capt. Fritchingham in Major Leslie's Brigade but she is not certain as to the names of the officers; He marched from said Fryeburgh on the eighth day of May 1781 & went to West-point; He continued in the service in the Massachusetts Line of Artillery under this enlistment a little over two years, when he exchanged engagements in the service with Sargent Robinson who had enlisted during the war, & was returned on the rolls as being enlisted during the war; & was regularly discharged at the end of the war, — The said John Fifeild her said husband was a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum; which he received for two or three years; which Pension was then suspended for a few years & subsequently renewed at the rate of one hundred Dollars, per annum, which he continued to receive till his death, to wit the 12 th day of November last.

For the particulars of the services of the said John Fipeld & the evidence and proofs thereof she would refer to the declaration & statement made by him in order to obtain his Pension, and the Documents accompanying the same, now on file at the Pension Department.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Fipeld, by the Reverend William Fipendon, at said Frysburg on the thirteenth day of June 1790: That her husband the aforesaid John Fipeld died on the twelfth day of November A D 1843, at said Frysburg. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above stated.
Phoebe Fipeld
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court by said Phoebe Fipeld, on the day & year first above mentioned, the words "and was regularly discharged at the end of the war" were interlined before signing before me J. P. Day Judge of Prob. De
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss.
I Aaron Brooks Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, hereby certify that the Hon J P Day is the Judge of said Court & that his signature above written is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this nineteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred & forty four. Aaron Brooks Reg

" Fryeburg April 17 91 (Seventeen hundred and ninety- one) The following Persons were joined in Marriage at the dates mentioned by the Subscriber
1790 (seventeen hundred and ninety)
May 13 (thirteen) John Fifeild and Phebe Frye of Fryeburg William Fessenden
Attest ~ Paul Langdon Town Clerk " Fryeburg March 28 th 1844 I the subscriber, of Fryeburg Oxford County, State of Maine, certify and say that I am the Town Clerk of said Fryeburg, that the foregoing, as above written is a true copy in words and figures, of the Town Records of said Town of Fryeburg
Joseph Chandler Town Clerk
Oxford ss. State of Maine March 28. 1844.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for said County of Oxford. Joseph Chandler above named, and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed was wholly true. And I further certify that the said Joseph Chandler is the actual Town Clerk of said Town of Fryeburg, and is a credible person -
Alex. R. Bradley Jus. Peace

We the subscribers, Abiel Frye and Esther Holt both of Fryeburg, Oxford County, and State of Maine, depose and say that for upwards of fifty years past, we have been near neighbors, and personally acquainted with John Fifield late of said Fryeburg, within mentioned; that he was always reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and was a Pensioner of the United States: that he died at said Fryeburg on the twelfth day of November eighteen hundred forty three: That Phebe Fifield within mentioned is his widow, and is now living, and remains the widow of the said John Fifield.
Fryeburg March 28 th 1844.
Abiel Frye
Esther Holt
Oxford County ss. State of Maine } March 28 th 1844 - }
On the day and year last above written, personally appeared Abiel Frye and Esther Holt above named, before me the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for said County, and made oath that the above affidavit by them signed is wholly true - and I further certify that said deponents are known to me to be persons of veracity Alex. R. Bradley Just. Peace.

Re WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24197
File No. 2111 Mabel G. Giffield Widow of John Giffield Barnesboro
Act Feb 2nd 1848
Index : Vol A , Page 239
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Phoebe Lefield was trans- ferred to Mass. on Aug 44. - arrears before that date payable in Maine & after at Boston
G. M. C.

9212
Joint Recs: of Army 23rd 1845 No 146 Reported.
Massachusetts
Phoebe Fifeild
widow of John Fifeild who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 12th Nov. 1843. of Connecticut in the State of Mass who was a Pri t of Artillery in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Crane in the _____ time for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 100 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of April, 1845 and sent to H. H. Parmen- ter, East Cambridge
Total amount, $500.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book _____ Vol. 1. Page 57

Massachusetts 5700 Attit
Abbe H. Field widow of John H. Field who was a Pri. of Artillery in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. / 2th. November, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of June, 1844 and sent to
Hon. Col. Parmachoo, W. of R.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 4
Opp Ord to Pension Agt 31. July 44 To Massachusetts from H. c March 1844, Aug 12. 1844. Notification to S. M. Stone Boston, Mass.
Apr 18th 1845 No: 1166 Certified under Seal Chas: of Jan'y 23 rd 1843 at $100 per annum Commencing on the 4th March 1843 & ending on the 19th Nov 1843 & sent to Hon. Col. Parmachoo East Cambridge, Mass. Rep?

Boston, 29 th July 1844.
Sir,
I enclose herewith the application of Phebe Nifield to be transferred to the Massachusetts Agency.
I am, very resp. Your ob t Serv t . L. M. Stone
J. L. Edwards Esq r Court of Sessions Washington 226.

Merchants Bank Portland Aug. 5. 1866.
Sir.
In answer to yours of 31 st ulto. I would inform you that the name of Peggy Fifield , is not upon the roll of this Agency, under the Act of March 3. 1863.
Phoebe Fifield is enrolled under that Act at $100 pr annum, and she was paid to March 4. 1866.
Respy Your ob d Serv.
J. Edwards Esq. Com d of Pension, Washington.
For the Woodbury Pen. Ag. Woodbury

Foreclosed by Wm Parmenter East Cambridge March 28. 1845
Joint Rec d
Phebe Fifield under joint resolution of 23 d January 1845 & act 7 th . July, 1838-
Adm l : c $100 per ann: from 4 March, 1836 to March 14. 1841-
act 3 d March 1843 from 4 March 1843 to 12 November, 1843.
Hon: W. Parmenter East Cambridge Mass: -

Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Resolution of Congress of the 23 d January 1845.
Whereas the act of the 30 th April 1844 prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner. I now make the following statement under oath, to obtain the benefits of the resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of John Fifeield deceased who was a private of Artillery in the Army of the Revolution; I have drawn a pension at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, from the 12 th day of November 1843. and now ask for the amount due me from the 4 th day of March 1836. to the 12 th day of November 1843 when my former pension commenced.
Sheba Fifeield
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this eighteenth day of March in the year 1845 at Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Lorenzo Morrett, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
Lorenzo Morrett, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston March 20 1845
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Lorenzo Marrett was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

No. 6028
Phoebe Fairfield 6028 W
Act 3 Mar. 43
Ad d
2 years
prior to
$100 per m
to commence Nov 12 th 43 day of his band's death
Howe W Parnenter W of B

House of Representatives
Jany 9. 1845
Dear Sir
I do not quite understand the intention of your Note on the enclosed. The object of Mrs. Field is to obtain the arrears to which she is entitled by the Joint Resolution which has just passed Congress. Mrs. Field was formerly of Maine but now resides in Cambridge with her son, the same town in which I live. Must she have make separate applications one for Maine and one for Massachusetts or what course must she take to put her application in train?
Yrs respectfully Paul Bates
G. H. Crump Esq

STATE OF MAINE.
HUGH J. ANDERSON, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE. To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That Alexander R. Bradley of Byeblurg in the County of Asford Esquire, whose name is borne upon the paper hereunto annexed, was, on the thirteenth day of March A. D. 1838 appointed and Commissioned, and on the twenty sixth day of October A. D. 1838 qualified as a Justice of the Peace within and for our said County of Asford that he still continues to hold said office: _____
E. D. Anderson
and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight and hundred and forty- four in the sixty- eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
Philip C. Johnson , Secretary of State.

Atkins
Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th inst. and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. H. [Signature]
Mr. [Name] [Address] [City]
Yours faithfully, [Signature]

Fryeburg July 1. 1828-
To the Hon. Richard Rush, Secy of the Treasury - Sir,
I enclose to you my application for a pension under the Act of May 15. 1828. I was placed on the Pension list by the Act of 1818. and the pension was discontinued by the subsequent act in consequence of my holding property to a larger amount than the law authorized. My pension certificate was dated Febry 10 th 1819. & I drew from the 13 th of April 1818. about two years pay before it was discontinued. The arrears due me under the new act you will please to remit me at Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, as likewise my pension certificate.
Very respectfully
Your obedt servt John F. Field
P.S. The number of my old Certificate is 6725.
Be pleased to return what papers I enclose that you do not wish to retain.

Fryburg June 26 th 1828 To the Hon ble Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America
This may certify that I received a discharge and furlough at West Point on June the tenth 1783 to remain on furlough untill was proclaimed at which time my discharge was to take effect after I had information that Capt n Lieutenant Charles Charles Knowles was appointed pay master to the Regiment I gave a power accompanied with my discharge as you will see by Swans letter no one and two which I found you enclosed and as my final Settlement Certificates on Discharge never came to hand your The Hon ble Secretary will see the way and manner in which they were lost
I find by the copy of my certificates mentioned in Swans letter No 2 that the first one to be Eighty Dollars bearing interest from the 30 th of November 1783 and the others together with the above amounting to three hundred and fifty Six Dollars and Eight ninetieths and one month's pay of received not long before I left Camp leaves a balance of about one hundred Dollars over and above my monthly wages in the line in which I served I Enlisted in February 1781 for three years passed muster the fore-
part of march and served as a three years man untill January or February 1783 at which time Sergeant John Robertson of the same Company and regiment with myself made me an offer that if I would Enlist for and during the war to serve in his room and stead and would let him be returned for three years to serve in my room and stead that he would relinquish all the promises of Government to him as a Soldier Enlisted for and during the war which I accepted and the matter was conducted in due form by officers appointed for that purpose
As I sent my discharge a way so long since that I cannot find any body that can testify that they did ever see it As there was arrears of rations and clothing due me when I left Camp JOHN FIELD

Fryburg June 26 th 1828 To the Hon ble Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America
This may certify that I received a discharge and furlough at West Point on June the tenth 1783 to remain on furlough was proclaimed at which time my discharge was to take effect after I had information that Capt Lieutenant Charles Charles Knowles was appointed pay master to the Regiment I gave a power accompanied with my discharge as you will see by Swans letter no one and two which I find you enclose and as my final Settlement Certificates on Discharge never came to hand your The Hon ble Secretary will see the way and manner in which they were lost
I find by the copy of my certificates mentioned in Swans letter No 2 that the first one to be Eighty Dollars bearing interest from the 30 th of November 1783 and the others together with the above amounting to three hundred and fifty Six and Eight ninetieths and one month pay of received not long before I left Camp leaves a balance of about one hundred Dollars over and above my monthly wages in the line in which I served I Enlisted in February 1781 for three years passed muster the fore-
part of march and served as a three years man until January or February 1783 at which time Serjeant John Robertson of the same Company and regiment with myself made me an offer that if I would Enlist for and during the war to serve in his room and stead and would let him be returned for three years to serve in my room and stead that he would relinquish all the promises of Government to him as a Soldier Enlisted for and during the war which I accepted and the matter was conducted in due form by officers appointed for that purpose
as I sent my discharge a way so long since that I cannot find any body that can testify that they did ever see it As there was arrears of rations and clothing due me when I left Camp John Griffith

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15 th May, 1820 , I John Trifield of Frye- burg in the County of Oxford, in the State of Maine, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution for & during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain John Lillie's company, in the Massachusetts Regiment of Artillery commanded by Colonel John Crane. And I also declare that my certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, was received for me, by Ensign Caleb Swan, then of New York, in the War Office, to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15 th of May, 1770 . -
And I further declare that I was, not on the 15 th day of March, 1820 , on the Pension List of the United States , on the Pension List of the United States.
John Trifield
State of Maine -
Oxford ss. - Before me, Stephen Chase, one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County of Oxford, personally appeared this day, John S. Chase, and John S. Banows, Esquires, both of

Jacob Fryeburg, who did severally make oaths that John Trefield, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed & believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated
Witness my hand this twenty first day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight. —
Stephen Chase, Justice of the Peace —
I Rufus H. Goodenow Clerk of the court of the County of Oxford in the State of Maine, do hereby certify, that Stephen Chase before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, this 25 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
R. H. Goodenow

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
July 28. 1828.
John Fifield, — of Fryeburg, — in the County of Oxford, — in the State of Maine, — has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private — in captain Lillie's company, in the regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
In order of the Secretary, A. Jenkins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
July 30 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to John Fifield in the Crane's Artillery. It further appears that John Fifield is now on the pension list of the Maine agency, and has been so since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of Eight dollars per month.
and according to the accounts rendered he has been paid to the 4th March 1828-
John Haggett Aud

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Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
26 August 1828
The annexed papers relating to the claim of John Fifield , under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a discharge, and, if so, what discharge, was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.  it appears from the Records in the Pension Office that the Claimant is the individual stated to be on the Pension list of the Maine agency.
Richard Rush.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
letter from the War Dept d dated 26 Aug t 1828
S. # 24. 197 Alt. Mills. OK 8
Approved Sept 1828

P. Fifield
aa 5700 ad
admitted
G. S. Bulfinch Boston Mass
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ss.
IN CHANCERY

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ss. Middlesex COUNTY,
On this twentieth day of July 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Phebe Fifield a resident of Cambridge in the county of Middlesex aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Fifield who was a resident of Fryeburg, State of Maine and who was a private of Artillery in the War of the Revolution and is the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June, 1844, on account of the Revolutionary service of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of one hundred dollars and cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Phebe Fifield
Sworn to and subscribed on the day } Before me, and year above written,
In presence of L. M. M. Justice of the Peace.
I Certify, That the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner, as she declares. L. M. M. Justice of the Peace.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, ss. Middlesex COUNTY,
I, Elias Thaine Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that L. M. M. Esquire is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified ; and that his signature, above written, is genuine.
Given under my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this twenty second day of July 1848.
E. Thaine CLERK.